Is that Cmos or Caos?
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On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thanks to all who made suggestions for my LILO
> > problem (it would not recognize the default label,
> > i.e. it would not start after 5 seconds as set up
> > in /etc/lilo.conf.
> >
> > I have tried all your suggestions with LILO, i.e. creating
> > a /boot separate partition, placing it and/or / at the
> > beginning of the drive, giving them different partitions types
> > and/or names (/dev/hda1, /dev/hda5, ....).
> >
> > Eventually I just gave up. Now I have a system which still
> > won't boot by itself, i.e. wait forever at the LILO prompt.
> > If I just hit enter, or type linux, it boots fine, and MANDRAKE 7.1
> > looks quite cool, actually.
>
> I've just joined, so I missed this thread. I sat through another of these on a
> laptop m.l., where lilo wouldn't boot, and he had to use a floppy. The answer
> there turned out to be different guesses at where track zero, sector zero
> actually was. Chos solved it that time.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
>
> Declan Moriarty
>
>
